Linux-Misc Digest #475, Volume #18 Tue, 5 Jan 99 12:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Best Free Unix? (Stephen E. Halpin)
LOCAL: Colorado LUG (CLUE) January Meeting (Jeffery Cann)
Re: error message during booting (Howard Mann)
New Hard Drive (Jeff Grossman)
Re: weird file stats result when I untar (Martin Beier)
Re: 3c905B running DHCP in Red Hat 5.1 (Mick Costa)
Re: How to increase font size of nxterm? (Martin Beier)
SAINT FOR LINUX (Michael Tse)
Re: Why is GNOME not called a window manager? ("David Z. Maze")
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Victor Danilchenko)
euro support in kernel 2.0 ("Colin Ling")
Re: Whats the best *offline* usenet reader for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cant compile kernel ??? help please (Peter Brookes)
PPP cannot determine remote ip address (Steve Lunson)
Re: UNIX98 PTYs (Dan Nguyen)
Re: Linux and Web publishing (Protocol?) (James Youngman)
Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux (James Youngman)
Re: Some X Windows apps not running (Henry Zheng (C))
Re: RAMDISK in RedHat 5.2, what are them for? Can remove them? (James Youngman)
Re: Any comments about these books? (James Youngman)
Re: rpm not working (James Youngman)
Re: gcc broken after egcs upgrade (Chris Mauritz)
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (M. Buchenrieder)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen E. Halpin)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 11:22:03 GMT
On 03 Jan 1999 22:42:03 -0500, in comp.os.linux.misc you wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Dillon) writes:
<<stuff deleted>>
>> On the otherhand, Linux uses a rather inconsistant filesystem
>> interface and does not support files larger then 2G on 32 bit
>> systems... you'd have to go to the alpha for that, and even then it
>> isn't used widely enough (as far as I can tell) to have the level of
>> testing that BSD's 4.4-based filesystem interface has, which is
>> consistantly 64 bits throughout (the few people who insist that 64
>> bit support on native 32 bit cpus somehow reduces performance, which
>> is the common argument against this, really have no clue as to what
>> they are talking about. Take it from a programmer, supporting 64 bit
>> file offsets on a 32 bit machine is not a big deal). Commercial
^^^^^^^^^^^^
>that's a pretty damn arrogant statement. dealing with 64 bit values on a
>32 bit machine means that you're using 2 registers instead of just one. on
>a machine as register starved as an x86, how do you figure there's no
>performance hit? i'm willing to believe there's a solution, but hand
>waving isn't it.
In the >10ms it takes for the heads of a disk to seek and a sector to
rotate under the heads and be read, a 100MHz processor could execute
more than a million instructions. The percentage of instructions
used to perform 64-bit math instead of 32-bit math to calculate >file
offsets< is likely to be an extremely small percentage of those million
instructions. Worrying 64-bit >file offsets< at the CPU register
level is a non-issue. The bigger concern is at the file structure
level, providing indexing which is efficient for random accesses both
below and above a 2GB file size, but there are a number of options here.
> and, of course, you're ignoring or ignorant of the fact
>that in order to fully support 64 bit files, the memory subsystem has to
>deal with 64 bit values as well (remember mmap?) and i'd *really* like to
>see how you propose to deal with 64 bit addresses on a 32 bit machine.
Where do you need 64-bit addresses? The function prototype allows for
mapping a region of a file to a region of memory. There is no requiment
that mmap be able to map an entire file into memory, and it would be
quite reasonable to allow a user to map a 1GB segment starting 6GB
into a file, assuming a 32-bit size_t for the 'length' parameter and a
64-bit off_t for the 'offset' parameter. The restriction here is in
the page to file index mapping, which may be more difficult to add to
linux.
>besides which, this argument is more or less irrelevant, as there is work
>on >2G files on 32 bit platforms. the best choice right now seems to be
>simply not supporting mmap, thereby skipping the whole 32/64 MM problems
>altogether.
<<more stuff deleted>>
>--
>Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
>paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.0pre3 i586 | at public servers
>Obviously your filters are throwing away mail from Randal. :-)
> -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-Steve
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From: Jeffery Cann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Colorado LUG (CLUE) January Meeting
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 06:02:57 -0700
Happy New Year!
Please join us for the Colorado Linux User's and Enthusiast's (CLUE)
January meeting. The meeting is at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, January 12, 1999
at the Batky-Howell's Education Center (BHEC). BHEC is located 10333
East Dry Creek Road in the CNA office building in Englewood, Colorado.
For directions, please visit our web site at www.clue.denver.co.us.
Lynn Danielson will talk about VNC -- Virtual Network Computing. VNC
allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the
machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from
a wide variety of machine architectures.
CLUE is open to anyone interested in Linux. We look forward to seeing
you there.
For more information, please contact
Jeffery Cann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
303 359 0806
--
"There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that
will
stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will
stop major governments from reading your files."
Bruce Schneier, "Applied Cryptography"
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: error message during booting
Date: 5 Jan 1999 06:06:07 GMT
In article <76rksk$107$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jinsong Ouyang) writes:
> After I rebuild the kernel (2.0.36) on RedHat5.2, I always see a few
> of the following error message during the booting:
>
> modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
>
> Anyone knows where is this coming from? Thanks.
>
Hi,
When you encounter a problem like this, think "FAQ" :-)
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/RedHat-FAQ/RedHat-FAQ-10.html#ss10.4
Cheers,
--
Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xmission.com/~howardm
(a LINUX website for newbies)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Grossman)
Subject: New Hard Drive
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 05:05:47 GMT
Hello,
I just purchased Red Hat Linux 5.2 and wanted to install it on a
computer that has a new hard drive. There was an existing 1.2 Gig
drive and I just purchased a new 10.0 Gig drive. I am running this on
an older Pentium 133 and it does not fully recognize the 10 Gig
without software. When I went to install Linux, it only recognized 2
Gigs of the 10 Gig drive. How can I resolve this? Should I return
the drive and purchase one that is smaller than 8.4 Gigs? Isn't that
the limitation?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Martin Beier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: weird file stats result when I untar
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 20:29:38 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> When I download packages off the net that are in the tar.gz form (ie, not
> in my OS's--Debian--packaging syste)
>
> and untar them as root, I seem to get weird file ownerships, like the lp
> group or some other numeric group. Shouldn't a file untar and have the
> ownership belong to the person (root) that called untar?
tar preserves the state of a directory tree, including date of creation,
date of last modification, owner, group etc. In contrast, cp -r does
change the file attributes to the current values.
--
Ok, maddel!
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From: Mick Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,rec.models.railroad,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 3c905B running DHCP in Red Hat 5.1
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 08:58:57 -0500
While I am not using Red Hat, I had a somewhat similar problem. When
you boot up your machine, check to make sure that the NIC is being
detected. I *think* you will see something like 01:33:0F:21 (or some
combination like this). If you see FF:FF:FF:FF, then I believe your
card is not being detected. My solution was to power down the computer
and then bring it back up (cold boot). When I warm boot from Win95, the
card isn't detected.
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From: Martin Beier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to increase font size of nxterm?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 20:26:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bas de Witte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Linux and am looking for a way to increase the font size used
> by nxterm under AfterStep under Linux 5.2.
>
> The 'xterminal' option in the LMB menu gives me a window which is
> unreadable on my 14" screen. I do not want to reduce the resolution
> because I have too little space on the desktop as it is (and I would not
> know how to change it). 'man xterm' gives me lots of fontoptions but I
> have no clue which one to use.
Try <ctrl>+<right mouse button> on the appropraite xterm to obtain a
standard
menu, or enter xterm -fn <fontname> on a shell, where <fontnames> can be
listed with th xlsfonts command.
--
Ok, maddel!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Tse)
Subject: SAINT FOR LINUX
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 13:20:23 GMT
Hi:
During the installation of SAINT in my Linux box, after I run make
linux, the following message appear:
can't find command nmblookup
can't find command smbclient
Then I run perl reconfig to continue the installation. perl 5.0 was
installed in my box
When I run ./saint, the following message appear:
saint shutdown
then my box return to root
Why? what is going wrong?
How can I install SAINT? PLEASE HELP.
THANK
MIKE
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why is GNOME not called a window manager?
Date: 05 Jan 1999 10:15:47 -0500
Shalu1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shalu1> Silly question, I know, but please enlighten me.
Shalu1> Is it because it runs on "top" of X11?
No; a window manager provides things like window decorations (title
bars, borders, minimize buttons, and the like). You can run any
window manager you'd like under GNOME; while it's marginally happier
if you use one that is compiled with GNOME support, it works almost as
well (you don't get pager support in the panel) without. You can run
GNOME with fvwm, fvwm2, scwm, gwm, twm, vtwm, wmaker, or even kwm if
you'd like.
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| David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box."
| http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 10:03:42 -0500
From: Victor Danilchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
jedi wrote:
>
> On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 21:43:01 GMT, Anthony Ord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 02:25:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
> >wrote:
> >>
> >> Hire better staff. A reliable distributed unix enviroment
> >> is certainly quite feasable.
> >
> >It is always best not to rely on reliability.(If you can)
>
> The fact remains that it has been done in practice.
> The only question remains is why my alma mater could
> pull it off in the 80's while that other fellow's
> university can't seem to manage in the 90's.
Me being the 'other fellow' in question, I want to point out that
reliability is relative. In the year-something that I have been working
here, we have had the total of about an hour of network downtime (not
counting the power outage that hit the entire side of campus), when one
of the main switches died (some segments of the network became
unreachable to one another, which in turn disconnected many systems from
the nameservers and exec fileservers). The point is that we do not want
even that little interruption to the research labs' activities -- or at
least we want to minimize its impact. This is why we prefer users to use
local shells (which point started the whole thread -- someone suggested
using customized [presumably NFS-served] shell to allow for automatic
path extensions) -- to minimize the impact of such extremely rare
outages.
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] A313, 5-4231 |
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From: "Colin Ling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: euro support in kernel 2.0
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:47:16 -0000
Does anyone know if there is a patch for the Euro support in kernel 2.0 and
will it be supported in 2.2?
Thanx
Colin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Whats the best *offline* usenet reader for Linux?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 04:39:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Hardwick) wrote:
> Greetings,
> Having happily moved from Win95 to Debian Linux recently, I am
> trying to find replacements for all the programs I typically ran under
> Win95 (Which I am dual-booting when I need to use an app that I
> haven't found for Linux). Under Win95 I use Forte Free Agent for
> reading usenet news. It works great since I can read the articles
> later, after I am offline.
>
> Question is: Which newsreader for Linux (X or console) has these
> features.
>
> 1. Allows offline reading.
> 2. Follows threads.
> 3. Must work with dialup PPP connection to NNTP server.
None, you need to use a combination of local NNTP server + newsreader for the
above task. If you're on a single user machine, you may try leafnode + your
favourate newsreader (for me, I'm using slrn). Leafnode works just like
FreeAgent.. For me, I'm getting my feeds thru' UUCP + NNTP (using 'suck') and
running INND on my notebook and INND sucking 6% of my 64Meg RAM (did 'expire'
everyday, otherwise it will take like 10% of my memory space).
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http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Brookes)
Subject: Re: Cant compile kernel ??? help please
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 22:37:59 GMT
>There are a lot reasons for "not having a zImage".
>The first is, that make zImage produces an error.
>If so, look at the last few lines of output: there
>should be an error message in case of an error.
The last three lines of the make zImage are:
[sb_common.o] error1
[sub_dirs] error2
[linuxsubdirs] error2
so it does look as though there is an error, but what do i need to do
to correct it.
>SuSE puts the Kernel-Sources into /usr/src/linux so you
>have to look at /usr/src/linux/arch/386i/boot/zImage.
there is no zImage in here, presumably because of the above errors
any ideas please, anyone.
thanks
peter
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From: Steve Lunson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP cannot determine remote ip address
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 13:43:35 +0000
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Hi. Hope you can help me,
I'm currently trying to set up ppp on my RedHat 5.2 box, It seems I can
connect and authenticate myself, but in the ip negotiations, I get cut off
as I cannot determine the remote ip address.
I've looked through the man pages and HowTo's, and am using the
ipcp-accept-remote option with the noipdefault. (I've attached my
/etc/ppp/options file)
Apart from the modem, my linux box is also connected to an internal
ethernet and uses 192.168.1.1 as it's ip. address and this seems to get
sent in the negotiations.
I cannot attach a messages log, as without PPP I've only got minicom
access to a university server which doesn't support kermit or *modem
protocols.
Does anyone have any suggestions, and thanks in advance.
Steve Lunson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UNIX98 PTYs
Date: 4 Jan 1999 20:44:47 GMT
Lev Babiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: There is no errors or any kind of problems, there just doesn't seem to
: be any signs indicating that UNIX98 PTYs are being used.
Either from X or through a telnet login. If your terminal is pts/?
then it works if its ttyp? then it didin't.
--
Dan Nguyen | There is only one happiness in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | life, to love and be loved.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Web publishing (Protocol?)
Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:16:33 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry) writes:
> I would like to know if there is a program that can perform like the
> publish portion of Netscape?
I use Joe Orton's Sitecopy from http://www.orton.demon.co.uk/projects/
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux
Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:18:36 +0000
Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know of an IDE RAID-5 controller for Linux?
>
> I am using Promise FastTrak, which has been absolutely stellar. We have
> weathered several crashes, and with the latest driver the rebuilds can
> take place while the system runs. So what's the problem?
You can do this with Software RAID under Linux nowadays. Including
hot reconstruction.
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
From: hzheng@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Henry Zheng (C))
Subject: Re: Some X Windows apps not running
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 99 15:52:02 GMT
I have the same problem, i.e., mc works, but the Tk version (tkmc) does not.
When I try to run it, tkmc complains about an unrecgnized symbol in a shared
library. I have no idea what is happening. I am also running RedHat 5.2.
Any help will be highly appreciated!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Victor Danilchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
: >
: > > Donald Hurst wrote:
: > >
: > > Some of the apps in X Windows won't run. For example: Midnight
: > > Commander. When I select the menu option, I get the zzZZZ for a few
: > > seconds then back to the arrow. It never comes up. This happens with
: > > other apps too (WordPerfect for example).
: > >
: > > I have 64 Meg of RAM with a 125 Meg Swap Partition. My video card is a
: > > S3 Virge with 4 Meg. CPU is a Pentium 233MMX. 4.2 Gig Hard Drive.
: > > Yes, I am new to Linux. I'm running Redhat Linux 5.2.
: >
: > I've run 5.2 and Midnight Commander (mc) comes up ok. It appears that
: > those apps are not in your path statement. use "echo $PATH" and see
: > what dirs are in your path. If need be, edit .profile and add the
: > appropriate dirs to your path and then "source .profile"
: MC works OK -- but it is a console app. Tkmc is supposed to be a TK
: wrapper for Midnight Commander, and it is failing on my (and apparently
: others') RedHat 5.2.
: --
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: +--------------------------------------------+
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAMDISK in RedHat 5.2, what are them for? Can remove them?
Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:19:43 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Choon-Cheng Chee (remove "removethis" in my e-mail))
writes:
> >No memory is used until you actually allocate the RAM disks (with
> >mke2fs /dev/ram[x]).
>
> Ok.. Any idea what they are created for?
The kernel you run is the same as the one used for the install; the
ramdisk is used as the root device while installing Linux.
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any comments about these books?
Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:25:40 +0000
"Andrei A. Dergatchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've come across http://www.mcp.com/personal/ which provides free on-line reading.
> In the list of all books available (http://www.mcp.com/personal/ebooklist.html)
> there are 6 containig "Linux" or "Unix" in titles. These are :
> LINUX System Administrator's Survival Guide; By Timothy Parker, Ph.D.; ISBN:
>0-672-30850-9
>
> Red Hat Linux Unleashed; By Kamran Husain, Tim Parker, et al.; ISBN:
> 0-672-30962-9
This one is not very impressive. For example, chapter 53 of this book,
"Writing Device Drivers", actually describes BSD Unix, not Linux!
There is a second edition of this book, at least -- there may even be
a third. The second was better than the first (but I'm biased).
> Slackware Linux Unleashed, Third Edition; By Timothy Parker, Ph.D., et al.; ISBN:
> 0-672-31012-0
> UNIX Unleashed; By Various UNIX Wizards; ISBN: 0-672-30402-3
> UNIX Unleashed: Internet Edition; By Burke,Horvath Et. Al.; ISBN: 0-672-31205-0
> UNIX Unleashed: System Administrator's Edition; By Robin Burk, et.al.;ISBN:
>0-672-30952-1
> all were published by Sams.
>
> It seems to me they are a bit out of date but I am not sure. Is any book of the above
> worth reading ?
Well, since they're free, it may be worth skimming them. There are
better Linux books, though, for example "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh
and the Addison-Wesley book by Mark Sobell.
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm not working
Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:26:33 +0000
Wayne Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> I'm running Redhet 5.1 and when I try to install any program with rpm it
> comes back to tell me that the program can not be installed. I tried
> to
What EXACTLY did you type?
What EXACTLY does it say?
> update the rpm files with the updated rpm-2_5_3-5_1_i386.rpm and it
> gives me the same error message. Does anyone know how to fix this.
>
> Thanks
> Wayne
>
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From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc broken after egcs upgrade
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 20:39:47 GMT
Steve Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Steigman wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I upgraded to a more recent rpm of egcs (1.1.1-2) yesterday and have
>> been
>> scrambling to get the system back to its original state ever since. I
>> didn't realize at the time that the original gcc was
>> necessary/recommended
>> for compiling 2.0.X kernels. I've removed all egcs packages and
>> reinstalled the gcc-2.7.2.3 rpm.
>>
>> Before this adventure yesterday, I was able to compile c/c++ w/o
>> problem.
>> Now, when running the ./configure scripts for stuff I'm trying to
>> compile,
>> I get the message, "configure: error: configuration or installation
>> error:
>> C compiler cannot create executables", when the script checks if gcc is
>> working.
>>
>> Maybe a more telling error message for troubleshooting: When trying to
>> compile Korganizer (g++), I'm getting the following error...
>>
>> as: error in loading shared libraries
>> : undefined symbol: __bzero
>>
>> ...before make quits.
>>
>> I re-ran ldconfig but that didn't help. I have re-installed all original
>> Redhat 5.2 packages now (gcc-2.7.2.3-14, libstdc++-2.8.0-14,
>> egcs-1.0.3a-14).
>>
>> Any pointers or suggestions? Thanks.
> A further update. I had already tried the things you outlined above but
> after reading your message also tried the libg++ 2.7.2.8-9 and changed the
> error when running config to:
> lib/libc.so.6 undefined reference dl_unload_cache
> I'm convinced that the problem is in the /lib or /usr/lib but where?
> Still not sure what or in what order things need to be re-installed but I
> hope this may provide you more insight than it did me.
I think you want to reinstall:
libstdc++-2.8.0-14
libstdc++-devel-2.8.0-14
Make sure you remove the egcs versions too. Also, if you switch to
egcs, some programs like groff are hard linked to the gcc clibs and
break. I had to recompile groff (so that man would work again) from
the source rpm after installing egcs on Redhat 5.2 with 2.1.127 kernel.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:11:23 GMT
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heinz Guenter Scharf) writes:
[...]
>There is an excuse for mangling the "From:" address for me:
>I am using uucp to get my E-mail. So the junk is already on my machine
>and already wasted bandwidth (and MY money). Procmail doesn't prevent
>this sort of waste in my environment.
No. Ask the ISP to do the filtering for you. If your ISP doesn't
want to do that for you, get a different ISP.
Michael
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